Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another L... Jun 25, 2009
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, a devastating adult satire in the guise of a perfectly controlled children s poem, is followed by the wonderfully erudite yet sensual In the Naked Bed, in Plato s Cave, and then At This Moment of Time, The Beautiful American Word, Sure, and O Love, Sweet Animal seem like equal parts Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke, all brewed with distinct Schwartzian elements and details that as if turn those other names inside out, from mere... (Suite101.com)
The Old Scout: A sigh from Saginaw — and the small birds Feb 15, 2008
hometown of the poet Theodore Roethke, who wrote a poem that began, I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, when small birds sighed she would sigh back at them. I came here to give a speech and afterward a man said, Thanks for coming. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
A sigh from Saginaw Feb 14, 2008
I write these words in a Ramada Inn in Saginaw, Michigan, hometown of the poet Theodore Roethke, who wrote a poem that began, "I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, when small birds sighed she would sigh back at them." I came here to give a speech and afterward a man said, "Thanks for coming. It's so hard to get first-rate speakers to come to Saginaw." Which was sort of crushing to me. Evidently they'd tried to get Alan Greenspan to come and read tea leaves for them and, failing that, had to... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Moss poachers strip forest Oct 16, 2007
A 1940s poem by Theodore Roethke, who gathered moss for his family's greenhouses, likened harvesting to "pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.". Can take 20 years to grow. (AZCentral -- Business)
Charlotte Wilbur, 85; inspired and guided poets May 6, 2007
Many of the 20th century's greatest poets passed through the Wilbur households, among them Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, James Merrill, and Stanley Kunitz. Elizabeth Bishop was a favorite of Mrs. Wilbur, who kept in touch with her husband's literary colleagues and warmly welcomed many writers. (Boston Globe)
Free verse for all: Poems are made for fools like us Apr 29, 2007
Last years quote lines from Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens. The Idea of Order at Key West is not an easy poem. (Yale Herald, CT)
Jim Harrison on Karl Shapiro Jan 27, 2007
Shapiro (1913-2000) had gotten the title for his book at a party, after giving a reading in Seattle, when Theodore Roethke called him a "bourgeois poet." The question is why it caused Shapiro such severe unrest that he poured heart and soul into what is really one very long poem. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune)
